See the Salon's web site for info on the whole series.

This is the uncut version of the video.

This conference held in English.

Enacted by digitalSSM, the project entitled “VARIANT. Documenting New Media Art🔗” continues with an online conference with contributions from Annet Dekker (Assistant Professor in Archival and Information Studies and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam) and Dragan Espenschied (The director of Rhizome’s Digital Preservation program).

In the first part of the conference, Annet Dekker present several documentation projects and show how documentation can shift from a static representation to a dynamic and performative act, thereby encouraging a rethinking of what documentation means. In the second part, a talk will be delivered by Dragan Espenschied, who proposes that specific types of documentation can become a part of an artwork’s manifestation, and over time, artworks can be moved into a mixed form that is part performance and part documentation.”

Annet Dekker is a curator and researcher. Currently she is the Assistant Professor in Archival and Information Studies and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, where she is also a visiting professor. She has published numerous essays and edited several volumes, among others, Documentation as Art (co-edited with Gabriella Giannachi, Routledge, 2022) and Curating Digital Art. From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-Curating (Valiz, 2021). Her monograph, Collecting and Conserving Net Art (Routledge, 2018) is a seminal work in the field of digital art conservation.

Dragan Espenschied is the Director of Rhizome’s Digital Preservation program, stewarding ArtBase, a collection 2200+ works of digital art and net art. With a background in net activism, net art, and electronic music; Espenschied has mostly focused on infrastructure and field-wide action concerning web archiving, emulation, and linked open data, rather than singular artworks.